Valve: don’t expect a faster Steam Deck ‘in the next couple of years’

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Valve: don’t expect a faster Steam Deck ‘in the next couple of years’
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I'd say while it's possible it's unlikely, remember that they're running PC games, all based on X86, the work needed to make Wine/Proton run all of that well on a different CPU set is significant, and would likely break compatibility in unexpected ways, effectively bringing all the recent wins moot and bringing Proton backwards. Definitely something that will likely happen, but more of a long-term goal (unless it's already in progress and with advances, no idea, but we would all have heard of it already if it was a thing)

With the timeframe this is likely to happen over, it might be RISC-V instead of ARM since that's an open source hardware platform and ARM seems to be joining enshittification trends (starting with worse licensing terms)

There allready is a transition layer that can be used so they wouldnt have to start from scratch. Box86/64